THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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WASHINGTON 



Water from the ditches of the Fruitland Irrigation 

 Company has arrived at Daisy. This canal is about 20 

 miles in length. 



Engineer Jacobs has conferred with D. E. McEwen of 

 the Quincy Valley Irrigation project and will soon start 

 preliminary surveys. 



The Smith-Cling Company, of Seattle, has purchased 

 about 1,200 acres in the Moxee Valley, and proposes to 

 irrigate by artesian wells. 



Work on the pumping plant for the Pasco irrigation 

 project at Pasco is progressing rapidly. The plant when 

 completed will cost approximately $60,000. 



The Fruitvale Chamo Irrigation Company of North 

 Yakima has made application to the secretary of state 

 for an increase in the number of stockholders. 



The Rose Land Company in Moxee Valley has ar- 

 ranged to open several thousand acres to settlement. 

 Plans have been perfected to pump water for irrigation 

 purposes. 



The Palouse Irrigation Company proposes to make 

 numerous improvements in its system three miles from 

 Hooper. Work has been begun on extension and enlarge- 

 ment of ditches. 



J. S. Malloy, associated with other capitalists, re- 

 cently purchased 3,500 acres near Post Falls, and proposes 

 to pump water from Hayden Lake for irrigation purposes. 

 A large power house will be installed. 



The Strahorn irrigation project of the Pasco Reclama- 

 tion Company is now being pushed to completion. Many 

 homeseekers are nocking to Pasco and adjacent territory. 

 When completed this engineering work will irrigate 20,000 

 acres. 



Michael Earles, president of the Hanford Irrigation 

 & Power Company, with possessions in eastern Wash- 

 ington, has bought a controlling interest in the company. 

 It is said that the North Coast railway attempted to 

 secure control. 



Noland & Thomas, contractors, are said to have ar- 

 ranged with the Pease Irrigation Company of Pasco for 

 part of the work on the company's power site near Straw- 

 berry Island on the Snake river. This work will be prose- 

 cuted with vigor. 



_ It is now claimed that representatives of the Klickitat 

 Irrigation & Power Company, with headquarters at Seat- 

 tle, has secured signatures representing about 100,000 acres 

 of land for their irrigation project in the Prosser and 

 Horse Heaven country. 



The water right applications on the Sunnyside unit 

 of the Yakima project number 1,204 and embrace 27,125 

 acres. During the month of September the government, 

 through the Sunnyside canal, served a total area of 47,000 

 acres, including old water rights. 



Ralph B. Williamson, attorney for the federal reclam- 

 ation service, has received authorization from the attorney 

 general to institute condemnation suits to obtain strips 

 of land in Yakima county, Washington, along the Sunny- 

 side canal to permit of its enlargement. 



The Prosser Land Owners Association, recently 

 organized, is said to have secured signature for 150,000 

 acres considered feasible for irrigation in the "Horse 

 Heaven" country. This organization will assist the Klick- 

 itat Power & Irrigation Company of Seattle. 



Holland capitalists are said to have made an investiga- 

 tion in the Moses coulee and adjacent river branches near 

 Columbia with a vv.w to irrigating about 8,000 acres, and 

 planting orchards. A central pumping plant will be con- 

 structed if the investigations prove satisfactory. 



E. F. Elaine, president of the Okanogan Power & 

 Irrigation Company, has arranged to increase the water 

 supply for irrigating lands in the Brewster flats. En- 

 gineers have made surveys and it is said that several 

 thousands of acres will be brought under water during 

 1910. The present reservoir will be enlarged. 



Samuel Hill and associates at Cliffs have purchased sev- 

 eral thousand acres of land near that place, and are con- 

 structing a cement dam about four miles northwest of the 

 city at the junction of two large canyons leading from 

 the Klickitat valley. Through a system of canals this 

 water will be supplied to the newly acquired lands. 



It is reported from Colfax that the Palouse Power 

 & Irrigation Company, which recently made application 

 for right to construct a dam on Rock Creek at the foot 

 of Rock Lake, has purchased a site from private property 



owners and has begun construction. In this project the 

 reclamation of about 12,000 acres is contemplated. 



The secretary of the interior has decided that the 

 proposals received for sixty miles of sub-laterals under 

 the first section of the Tieton unit, Yakima project, are 

 excessively high. Engineers estimated the cost of the 

 work at $11,344, while the lowest bid was $23,750. The 

 secretary has authorized the work to be done by force 

 account. 



The government engineer in charge reports the 

 Okanogan project as 96 per cent completed, and the Con- 

 conully dam embankment 80 per cent. During the month 

 of September 12,600 cubic yards of material were sluiced 

 from the borrow pit, and 600 cubic yards were hauled by 

 scrapers for the big earth dam. This structure now con- 

 tains 267,000 cubic yards. 



The Camas prairie country, fifteen miles northwest of 

 Husum will soon be supplied with water. Wm. R. King, 

 of Portland, has begun work on dams necessary to divert 

 water from the Klickitat river at Glenwood. Ditches will 

 conduct this water a distance of eight miles to the Camas 

 prairie, ten miles long and three miles wide. This land 

 was formerly used for grazing purposes. 



The Seattle Chamber of Commerce has been re- 

 quested to use its influence with congressmen and other 

 government officials for the early completion of the 

 United States project in Kittitas county. It is said that 

 an effort will be made to have this part of the govern- 

 ment project constructed before the canals in Benton and 

 Yakima counties. About 70,000 acres in Kittitas county 

 are available for irrigation. 



Quincy Valley Water Users' Association and Joseph 

 Jacobs, consulting engineer to the United States reclama- 

 tion service, signed a contract at Morrison for the pre- 

 liminary survey for irrigating the Quincy country, part of 

 the Big Bend project, about 500,000 acres. Mr Jacobs 

 started work at once and will first cover the country to 

 be irrigated south of Ephrata, Winchester and Quincy to 

 the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway Com- 

 pany's right-of-way. 



Chiefs of the Yakima tribe in central Washington 

 had a conference at Fort Simcoe, west of Spokane, re- 

 cently to discuss the Wapato irrigation project, which will 

 eventually supply water for 120,000 acres. They listened 

 to explanations of the proposed work by Indian Agent 

 Young. The matter of sending a delegation to Wash- 

 ington, D. C, to take the question of paying for water 

 rights direct to headquarters, with a view to having the 

 secretary of the interior or the president deal with the 

 reclamation service, was mentioned, but no decision was 

 reached. H. M. Gilbert, president of the Washington 

 State Horticultural Association, and L. V. McWhorter 

 made the chief addresses to the Indians. 



Fifty farmers owning land under the Cascade canal 

 in the Ellensburg district, west of Spokane, have decided 

 to spend $300,000 in improving the works to water 10,000 

 acres of land. B. F. Reed, president of the commercial 

 club of Ellensburg, will soon appoint a committee to pre- 

 pare plans and means of financing the project. Most of 

 the owners favor an assessment against every acre under 

 the canal, the rest of the money required to be raised by 

 issuing bonds. The project calls for a tunnel from Dry 

 Creek through the hills for more than two miles to a 

 point near Indian Lake. Engineer Riddell, who made the 

 survey of the line, reports that the distance is approxi- 

 mately 14,100 feet. At one point the canal tunnel will 

 be 240 feet below the surface. 



Wenatchee Canal Company, headed by W. T. Clark, 

 formerly of Spokane, which owns a high line ditch of 

 40 miles in the Wenatchee valley in central Washington, 

 has plans for improvement involving an expenditure of 

 from $75,000 to $100,000. Plans have also been completed 

 for the expenditure of $65,000 next season. The work 

 this fall and winter will be between Wenatchee and Cash- 

 mere. The company intends to replace the flume above 

 Cashmere by running a tunnel through Cashmere hill 

 next fall. This will be 5,000 feet in length and cost 

 $40,000. A ditch will be dug to replace other flumes and 

 new flumes constructed at an expense of $17,000. Six 

 thousand feet of tunneling will be done the coming win- 

 ter. The canal was constructed in 1903 through the sage- 

 brush land, for years considered worthless. It is selling 

 at $1,000 an acre. 



